'Please don't let this place reappear as a blot on our lovely landscape'

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

A lap dancing club in Altrincham town centre has applied for a new Sex Establishment Licence with its application set to be decided next week.

It follows the refusal of a plan to convert the Totties premises into apartments. The new application for the building on The Causeway goes before Trafford’s public protection sub-committee on Thursday April 18.

It has been lodged by Parisian Bistro Ltd, the company behind Totties. The club had its licence renewed by Trafford council in 2020, but it has remained closed since the pandemic and the death of its owner Roy Dodd, who died in that year.

Charlotte Street Estates Ltd, based in Manchester, applied for permission ‘in principle’ to convert part of the ground and first floors from lap dancing and a retail unit into three apartments as well as the addition of another storey for a further four flats. READ MORE: Saucy social media profile of local election candidate 'MuscleManc1' taken down However, in January the plan was knocked back by Trafford’s planning department with officers saying the scheme would be ‘over-dominant, contrived and incongruous’.